Crim Festival of Races 10M

Glory days

This year a record 7,224 runners "hit the bricks" in the 10 miler, and it also marked the end of Sherlynn Everly’s six-year stint as race director. Her send-off was anything but uneventful, as a huge thunderstorm went through Flint in the hour before the start, dumping several inches of rain and delaying the start 30 minutes, although mercifully cooling things off from the normal Crim heat. "I’d like to think the running gods were putting on a fireworks display and maybe crying over my leaving," said Everly, who got to run the 8K for the first time. That’s a personal demonstration of the power of the Crim, since "I wasn’t a runner at all when I started," she says, noting that she’s most proud of how the race has gotten more people involved in living a healthier lifestyle.

Seeing that, Moore, who was at the finish this year, might want to issue a director’s cut of his film, showing that while the carmakers have left Flint, thousands of runners have rushed in to enthusiastically fill the void.